Pastor Louie Giglio of the Georgia-based Passion City Church has announced he has decided not to deliver the benediction during President Obama’s second inauguration ceremony.

Members of the LGBT community were stunned after Giglio’s name was announced on Tuesday. As Think Progress reported,”In a mid-1990s sermon identified as Giglio’s, available online on a Christian training website, he preached rabidly anti-LGBT views. The 54-minute sermon, entitled “In Search of a Standard – Christian Response to Homosexuality,” advocates for dangerous “ex-gay” therapy for gay and lesbian people, references a biblical passage often interpreted to require gay people be executed, and impels Christians to “firmly respond to the aggressive agenda” and prevent the “homosexual lifestyle” from becoming accepted in society.”

Many saw the choice of Giglio by the selection committee as a slap in the face from on otherwise LGBT-friendly administration. Within hours after Tuesday’s announcement activists took to social media sites calling out the choice.

ABC News reported on Thursday that Giglio has decided not to participate in the event. In a statement to Think Progress, Giglio downplays the severity of his sermon and says he is withdrawing because his prayer would have been “dwarfed by those seeking to make their agenda the focal point of the inauguration.”

It’s no secret that American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer hates the LGBT community. The former director of the Idaho Values Alliance has made a full fledged career out of spewing his poison, both here in Idaho and on the national stage. So it should come as a surprise to no one that Fischer is busy defending one of the main people behind Uganda’s “Kill the gays” bill.

For those that don’t know, for years, Lively has been perpetuating the myth that gays were responsible for the Holocaust . Worse yet, he continues to link the struggle for homosexual equality with pedophilia, both here in America and around the world. Despite having his theories discredited by any number of scholars, psychologists and historians, Lively continues to find an audience among the uneducated, the superstitious and those who use their religion as a tool for hate.

In 2009, Lively met with Ugandan government leaders and headlined a conference promoting his hateful theories. It was from that conference that Uganda’s bill emerged. His involvement in the bill, which has since been cleverly rewritten to specifically exclude capital punishment wording, is well documented and undeniable. In fact, as the New Civil Rights points out, Lively has went so far as to call the bill,”a huge blessing” for Uganda and for him personally.

Newt’s sister, Candace Gingrich-Jones, who is a lesbian, is staying out of the whole mess by voting for Obama.

Speaking of Mittens, now that Rick Santorum has been proclaimed the promised one by the likes of James Dobson and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, American Family Association’s favorite hatemonger, Bryan Fischer, appears to backtracking on his stance on the LDS faith.

No real friend of the LGBTQIA community to begin with, we can probably expect Romney to move even more to the right as he tries to “prove” himself to the fascist flock. Dumb mistake, since the majority of Americans support some sort of LGBTQIA equality but then nobody has exactly ever accused Mitts of being the smartest man in the room.

Following the interview Fischer posted an editorial on the matter on the AFA website touting the anniversary of basketball great Magic Johnson’s HIV diagnosis as “proof” of one of his most blatantly deadly claims yet,”So why is Magic the picture of health 20 years after this supposedly terminal diagnosis? Easy: the HIV virus does NOT cause AIDS. ”

Fischer, who is not a doctor nor is he obviously not an expert on how t-cells and viral loads work, goes on to site plain wrong and outdated statistics to back up Duesberg’s claim,”96% of male homosexuals have used nitrite inhalants (amyl nitrites, called “poppers”), 70% have used amphetamines and up to 60% have used cocaine or LSD.”

Based on Fischer’s logic one would also have to insanely conclude that drug abuse is to blame for AIDS in areas like Africa and Haiti as well.

May-Chang, who has been following Fischer’s rise as hateful mouthpiece for the American Family Association since his days back here in Idaho, has dug up some audio that his “good LDS friends” may be interested in hearing….

Can’t wait to hear Fischer dismiss this one as “..some of the people I used to trust are the source of these lies.”

For those of you unfamiliar with Fischer’s hate fest here in Idaho be sure to check out The Fischer Files on Jody May-Chang’s website.

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